1 the tulip doctrine the sovereignty of god. 2 otal hereditary depravity nconditional election...

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The TULIP Doctrine

The Sovereignty of God

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otal Hereditary Depravity

nconditional Election

imited Atonement

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erseverance of the Saints

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Romans 15:4-6 “For whatsoever things were written

aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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Introduction

Many warnings of false ideas! False teachers are deceptive! They can captivate! Some are held hostage! Many are blinded by false doctrine! Error is the desire of some!

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Colossians 2:4-8 “And this I say, lest any man should beguile

you with enticing words. For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

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Other Warning Passages!

Matt. 7:15-20 Eph. 5:6-14 Col. 2:18-22 1 Tim. 4:1-5 I Jn. 4:1

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Background Information

Calvinism the brainchild of John Calvin! 1509-1564

Prolific writer! “The Institutes of The Christian Religion” Papers, commentaries, papers

Developed a “Theological System”! The basis of most denominational error!

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The Foundational Principle

The Sovereignty of God “The confession of the sovereignty

of God has become the hallmark of authentic Calvinism” Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, p.

1039 What is meant by the term “Sovereignty

of God”?

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Westminster Confession of Faith “God, from all eternity, did, by the

most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass…He has not decreed anything because He foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass on such conditions…By the decree of God, for

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the manifestation of His glory, some men are predestinated to everlasting life; and others foreordained to everlasting death…their number so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished.” Westminster Confession of Faith, 1968

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The Sovereignty of God? What is meant by Calvinists?

That whatever God wants happens. If anything happens, the event was

determined and caused by God. They reason that those who will be lost or

saved has already been determined by God. Does God do everything he has the

power to do? Matt. 3:9; 4:1-11, esp. vss. 3, 6, 9

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The Sovereignty of God? This idea is the soil this TULIP is rooted in?

If everything God wants happens, then everything that happens is the will of God!

This idea is false to the core! Many bad things happen to people

because of their own choices which are contrary to God’s will! Israelites - Heb. 4:1-11; 1 Cor. 10:1-12 2 Pet. 3:9; Matt. 7:12-29; 2 Thess. 1:7-9

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Andrea Yates Andrea Yates, a Houston, Texas resident, is known for killing of

her five young children on June 20, 2001, by drowning them in the bathtub in her house.

She had been suffering for years with severe postpartum depression and psychosis.

Convicted of capital murder in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years.

Yates' conviction was later overturned on appeal.

On July 26, 2006, a Texas jury ruled Yates to be not guilty by reason of insanity. She was consequently committed by the court to the North Texas State Hospital, Vernon Campus, a high-security mental health facility in Vernon, Texas

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This point alleges that humans are totally depraved! “As a result of this inborn

corruption, the natural man is totally unable to do anything good…the sinner is so spiritually bankrupt that he can do nothing pertaining to his salvation” –

The Five Points of Calvinism, Steele/Thomas, p. 25

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“Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will of any spiritual good accompanying salvation…is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.” - Westminster Confession

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“… we are condemned before we have done good or evil; under the curse ere we know what it is…” - John Wesley Wesley on Original Sin, P. 340

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What Does The Bible Say? Sin is committed, not inherited!

Who did Adam & Eve inherit sin from? They had no physical father or mother! Created by God – Gen. 1:26, 27

We inherit the consequences of sin – not the guilt of sin!

Certain physical traits are inherited! Many suffer from the consequences of sins of others!

One CHOOSES to do evil! Isa. 59:2; Eph. 2:1-3; 1 Jn. 3:4

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What Does The Bible Say? Little children are innocent not

depraved! No Bible evidence of depravity at birth!

Not born depraved – not able to choose good or evil.

Duet 1:39; Eccl. 7:29; Matt. 18:3

If children are born sinners then they are little depraved devils in diapers!

Matt. 18:3

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What Does The Bible Say? “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.

The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.” Ezk. 18:20-28

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Known as the “doctrine of predestination”!

This point alleges that God elected some to be saved and excluded others. Those excluded are lost! They have no hope of salvation!

Their election by God is unconditional! JW’s claim that only the 144,000 will go to

heaven! Rev. 14:1-2

“God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass…He has not decreed anything because He foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass on such conditions…By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men are predestinated to everlasting life; and others foreordained to everlasting death…their number so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished.”

Westminster Confession of Faith, 1968

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Steele/Thomas Quote

“God could have chosen to save all men (for He had the power and authority to do so) or He could have chosen to save none (for He was under no obligation to show mercy to any)-but he did neither. Instead, He chose to save some and to exclude others…” The Five Points of Calvinism, p. 30

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What does the Bible say? “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come.

And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” – Rev. 21:17 Matt. 28:19; Mk. 16:15, 16; Lk. 14:26; Mk.

8:34 Acts 17:30-31; 2 Tim. 2:1-6

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To Pittsburg - Bay Point Bart Station

Destination of this bus is predetermined before hand!

• Eph. 1:5, 11 – “predestinated us”

All Spiritual Blessings

Are

“In Christ” - Gal. 3:27

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Spiritual BlessingsRemission of sins - Acts 2:38Washing away sins - Acts 22:16Blood of Christ - Rom. 6:3-4Become a New Creature - Rom. 6:5Put on Christ - Gal. 3:26-27Sanctified & Cleansed - Eph. 5:26A Child Of God - Gal. 3:26-27Enter the Kingdom - Jn. 3:4A Good Conscience - 1 Pet 3:21The Church (Body) - Acts 2:47The Name of Christ - Acts 4:12Salvation - Mk. 16:16

Alien Sinner

Baptism Stands Between The Alien

Sinner and All Spiritual Blessings!

“all spiritual blessings…in Christ” - “baptized into Christ”

(Eph 1:3; Gal. 3:27)

The Blessings of God & Obedience

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Many on the wrong bus!

Faith Only

• Eph. 4:4; Matt. 16:18

Denominational Bus!

Catholic, Baptist, Mormon, SDA, Muslim,

JW, Christian Scientist…ect.!

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imited Atonement

Who did Christ die for? Only the elect? Is the atonement of His shed blood

limited? The claim of Calvinists…

“Christ’s redeeming work was intended to save the elect only and actually secured salvation for them. His death was a substitutionary sacrifice of the penalty of sin in place of certain specified sinners…” – Steel/Thomas, p. 17

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What does the Bible say? “But we see Jesus, who was made

a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man” - Heb. 2:9

Others…

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What does the Bible say? “For God so loved the world, that he gave his

only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”

Jn. 3:16 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment

came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

Rom. 5:18

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What does the Bible say? “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and

not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”

1 Jn. 2:2 “For the love of Christ constraineth us;

because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.”

2 Cor. 5:14-15

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What does the Bible say? “For ye are all the children of God by

faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.” - Gal. 3:26-29

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What does the Bible say? “Though he were a Son, yet learned he

obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him” - Heb. 5:8-9

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” – 1 Pet. 3:9

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rresistible Grace

This idea says the God saves sinners even if they have no desire to be saved.

This is the “direct operation of the Holy Spirit” idea!

This rules out the desire and will of man to be saved!

One then cannot resist the Spirit or Grace of God. Steele/Thomas say…

“The Spirit is in no way dependent upon their help or cooperation for success in His work of bringing the [the elect] to Christ,” p. 49

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What does the Bible say? The Spirit can be resisted!

“Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.” – Acts 7:51

“Quench not the Spirit.” – 1 Thess. 5:19

sben'-noo-mee - a prolonged form of an apparently primary verb; to extinguish (literally or figuratively):--go out, quench.

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To Quench vs. Build-up

Build-up – Feed

Acts 20:32

Eph. 4:12, 16, 29

Extinguish

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1 Timothy 4:1-2

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron”

Are “seducing spirits” in opposition to the Holy Spirit?

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Acts 20:28-32 “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all

the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.”

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This is the “once saved always saved” idea. Dr. Albert Gardner, while President of a

Baptist College in Lakeland, Florida was asked…

“Is the eternal salvation of the child of God, saved by the blood, absolutely unconditional in that he is not required to do anything to go to Heaven?”

He answered – “YES!”

Quote Of Sam Morris

"We take the position that a Christian's sins do not damn his soul. The way a Christian lives, what he says, his character, his conduct, or his attitude toward other people have nothing whatever to do with the salvation of his soul... All the prayers a man may pray, all the Bibles he may read, all the churches he may belong to, all the services he may attend, all the sermons he may practice, all the debts he may pay, all the ordinances he may observe, all the laws he may keep, all the benevolent acts he may perform will not make his soul one whit safer; and all the sins he may commit from idolatry to murder will not make his soul in any more danger...The way a man lives has nothing whatever to do with the salvation of his soul...The way I live has nothing whatsoever to do with the salvation of my soul." (Do A Christian's Sins Damn His Soul?, Sam Morris, First Baptist Church, Stamford, Texas).

Source: http://www.padfield.com/1998/sin.html

Quotes By Baptist Preachers

Proposition affirmed by Kent Brandenburg, a Baptist Preacher, in March of 2006!

“The Scriptures teach that a child of God, one saved by the blood of Christ, cannot so sin as to be lost eternally in hell“

“If I left my wife and ran off with a 16 year old girl, God would work it out for my good.” (Quote of Hoyt Chastain in debate with A.C. Grider)Source: http://www.christiancourier.com/penpoints/baptist_rules.htm

“If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women, I couldn’t go to hell…in fact, I couldn’t go to hell if I wanted to.” (Sam Morris)Source: http://www.bible.ca/cal-P-creeds.htm

FALSE DOCTRINE

http://www.christiancourier.com/penpoints/baptist_rules.htm

http://www.bible.ca/cal-P-creeds.htm

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What does the Bible say? “But I discipline my body and bring it

into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.” 1 Cor. 9:27

Was being disqualified a concern? If Paul mentioned it, was this possible? The possibility motivated Paul!

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What does the Bible say? “Brethren, if any of you do err from the

truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.” - Jas. 5:19-20

Can one who errs be lost?

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What does the Bible say? “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in

any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” Heb. 3:12-13

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What does the Bible say? Other passages!

2 Pet. 1:4-11 2 Pet. 2:1-2 Heb. 10:26-31

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People become sinners by violating God’s law!

Rom. 3:23; 1 Jn. 3:4 Sinners become saints by obeying

the gospel! Rom. 1:16-17; 6:17-18; Gal. 3:26-27

Once saved, you must remain faithful!

Col. 1:23; 2:6-7; Acts 8:22; Gal. 5:2, 4; Rev. 2:10

Calvinism is“not according to Christ”!

Rom. 15:4-6

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Romans 15:4-6 “For whatsoever things were written

aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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